1 The U.S. Mexico Border since 1848 Spring 2017 HIST 3390: Special Topics / CRN 26455 CHIC 4350: Topics in Chicano Studies / CRN 20489 Dr. Jeffrey P. Shepherd (jpshepherd@utep.edu) Wednesdays 1:30-4:20 Office: LART 326 / Hours: Tues & Wed 10:00 12:00 Liberal Arts Building Rm. 322 Office Phone: 915.747.6805 Course Description This course will focus on the border region shared by Mexico and the United States after 1848. Although the geographical scope will remain close to the line between the U.S. and Mexico, content will address a broad range of themes, debates, patterns, and concepts. Foundational notions of race, citizenship, class, gender, sexuality, labor relations, immigration, war, nation-hood, state formation, militarization, vice, activism will guide our investigation of important historical events and people. To the best of our ability we will anchor the course in a transnational framework that emphasizes the flows of capital, culture, people, and ideas across the line. Additionally, the course will focus on important skills of the Historian, such as analyzing primary sources, conducting basic research, grappling with competing scholarly interpretations about the past, assessing the arguments and main points of secondary sources, and group discussion. Students will complete a brief research project on a person, place, community, event, or issue of regional significance, and present that work to the class. Reading Material All readings are posted online (http://faculty.utep.edu/default.aspx?tabid=19869). Click on the tab Courses, located on the top of the page, and go to the bottom of the drop down menu. Click HIST 3390: Special Topics: The U.S. Mexico Border after 1848. Scroll down to Weekly Readings, and see the links (author, document) under the appropriate week. Research Project (225 points) Students will conduct basic research into a person, issue, event, place, etc. in borderlands history, and write a paper that is 10 12 pages long. Your grade is based on several steps in the research process, which requires you to come up with a research topic (see a list of suggested topics at the end of the syllabus), devise a research question, search for primary and secondary sources, take notes, devise an outline, write drafts, revise, and follow-through with a complete paper. For additional explanation of the research paper, please see the handout Directions for Research Paper. 1. Proposal & Bibliography for Paper (25 points) 2. Outline of Paper (25 points) 3. Rough Draft of Paper (50 points) 4. Final Draft of Paper (100 points) 5. Presentation of Work (25 points) Participation/Attendance and Peer Reviews (Peer Reviews 50 + General 50 = 100 points) I will take attendance every day. You are allowed ONE EXCUSED ABSENCE. Absences after that will lower your final grade. Participation in class discussions and in the Peer Review process is crucial. Everyone needs to participate in the discussions during class by asking questions, offering comments, and sharing your experiences about the research you are conducting. You must return Peer Review sheets when I distribute them. Lastly, students must schedule one meeting with me in my office before February 8.
Research Exercise #1: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (25 points) Search online using ProQuest Congressional Publications for the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (The Treaty of Peace, Friendship, Limits, and Settlement with the Republic of Mexico) which ended the U.S. War with Mexico. In a brief paper of 400 500 words, summarize Articles of the Treaty (we will divide the articles between students in class). Download the document on a flashdrive or computer and bring to class. Cite at least one of the articles from the class readings. Due February 1 Research Exercise #2: Manuscript & Archival Collections Summary (25 points) The UTEP library has numerous manuscript collections and the papers of various historically significant individuals and organizations. The collections and papers are primary sources: the basic data, or building blocks, of all historical research. This assignment requires you to find one manuscript collection on line and then look at it in the UTEP Special Collections Department. You will submit a summary of the scope and contents of the collection, and make a digital copy of one document from the collection. Be prepared to talk about the collection in class. 500 words maximum. Due February 15 Research Exercise #3: Newspaper Coverage (25 points) Historians frequently use newspapers for their research. Today, many newspapers are digitized and available online, but it is still important to learn how to find original copies in an archive. In this assignment you will look at the El Paso Post-Herald online (using one of several databases) and its coverage of an event or story between 1914 and 1929 and then try to find a hard copy version of that same article. Download the digital version and make a copy of the other version. Write a summary of the steps you took to find the story, and then summarize the story. 500 words maximum. Due March 1 Quizzes (4 x 25 points = 100 points) I will administer 4 quizzes to assess how well you are reading the assigned materials. Grade Distribution Research Exercise #1: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (25 points) Research Exercise #2: Manuscripts & Archival Collections (25 points) Research Exercise #3: Newspaper Coverage (25 points) Proposal and Annotated Bibliography (25 points) Outline of Paper (25 points) Rough draft (50 points) Final Paper (100 points) Presentation of Work (25 points) Participation/Attendance (50 pts Peer Review + 50 pts attendance/contributions = 100 pts) Pop Quizzes (4 x 25 = 100 points) Total for Semester (500 points) Grading Scale A = 450-500 B = 400-449 C = 350-399 D = 300 349 F = 284> Polices & General Issues Students must follow the Academic Code of Conduct (http://sa.utep.edu/studentlife/#student-conduct) which covers issues such as ethical behavior, plagiarism and cheating. Students with special needs must contact me during the first two weeks of class. Students engaged in University sanctioned activities (sports, etc.) must provide written documentation. If you foresee non-school related situations that will prohibit you from attending classes, you must contact me in the first week of class. All assignments must be submitted on time. Late essay papers will lose one letter grade per day late. Papers turned in after I pick them up on the same day they are due will lose half a grade. 2
3 COURSE SCHEDULE Week 1 (Jan 18) Course Overview and Introductions Week 2 (Jan 25) U.S. Mexico War documents The 1840s and the U.S. War with Mexico Texas Revolution, U.S. Mexico War Overview of Research Papers and Research Process Andres Resendez, National Identity on a Shifting Border: Texas and New Mexico in the Age of Transition, 1821-1848 Journal of American History Vol. 86. No. 2 (Sept., 1999), pp. 668-688. Ernesto Chavez, Introduction to The U.S. War with Mexico (Bedford St. Martin s Press, 2007) Week 3 (Feb 1) Disturnel Map Gadsden Purchase (Mesilla Treaty) The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the Mesilla Treaty Early El Paso, The U.S. Mexico Boundary Survey, Mesilla Treaty Overview of Research Papers and Research Process Due: Research Exercise #1 (Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo) Rachel St. John, Introduction: A New Map for North America: Defining the Border in Line in the Sand: A History of the Western U.S. Mexico Border (Princeton University Press, 2012), 12-38. W. H. Timmons, American El Paso: The Formative Years, 1848-1854 The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Vol. 87, No. 1 (Jul., 1983), pp. 1-36 Week 4 (Feb 8) U.S. Seeks Release from Treaty Obligation to Control Indian Raids into Mexico, 1851 Juan Nepomucena Cortina, Proclamation, 1859 National Wars, Civil Wars and Instability, 1850s & 1860s Slavery, Civil War, African/Indigenous Peoples, Benito Juarez Archives and Manuscript Collections (UTEP Library first floor coffee shop) Joseph Park, The Apaches in Mexican-American Relations, 1848-1861 Arizona & the West Vol. 3 No. 2 (Summer 1961): 129-146. James David Nichols, The Line of Liberty: Runaway Slaves and Fugitive Peons in the Texas-Mexico Borderlands The Western Historical Quarterly Vol. 44 No 4. (Winter 2013): 413-433. Miguel A. Gonzalez-Quiroga, Conflict & Cooperation in the Making of Texas-Mexico Border Society, 1840-1880, 33-58, in Ben Johnson and Andrew Graybill, Bridging National Borders in North America (Duke: 2010).
4 Week 5 (Feb 15) Comision Pesquisadora de la Frontera del Norte, Report to the President, 1873 Congressional Investigation Board, El Paso Troubles in TX Capitalism, Industrialization and Labor Industries & economies, immigration, social & racial conflict Online materials and search techniques (MEET IN LIBRARY ROOM 204A) Due: Research Exercise #2 (Manuscript Summary) SEND VIA EMAIL Unknown, Law, Race, and the Border: The El Paso Salt War of 1877 Harvard Law Review Vol. 117 No. 3 (Jan. 2004): 941-963 Miguel Tinker Salas, Sonora: The Making of a Border Society, 1880-1910 Journal of the Southwest V. 34 N. 4 (Winter, 1992): 429-456. Week 6 (Feb 22) Nation Building, Militarization, and Indigenous Peoples Indigenous People, Militarization, social conflict, and border impacts Due: Research Project Proposal & Bibliographies Secondary Readings General Crook Describes Difficulty of Capturing Geronimo, 1883 Apache documents Shelley Hatfield, Chapter, Chasing Shadows: Apaches and Yaquis Along the United States - Mexico Border, 1876-1911 Scott C. Comar, The Texas Two Step: The Incorporation and Dispossession of the Tigua of Isleta del Sur, 1848 1889, Password V. 54 N. 2 (Summer 2009): 55 72. Week 7 (Mar 1) Mexican Migrants Protest Gasoline Baths, 1917 Modernity and the Progressive Era Urbanization, Race, public health, vice Due: Research Exercise #3: Newspapers, 1914 1929 Return Comments on Proposals, Peer Review & Assessment Grace Pena Delgado, Border Control and Sexual Policing: White Slavery and Prostitution along the U.S. Mexico Borderlands, 1903-1910 Western Historical Quarterly V. 43 N. 2 (Sum 2012): 157-178. El Paso Reporter Recalls Lure of Juarez in 1920s (1968) Alexandra Minna-Stern, Buildings, Boundaries, Blood: Medicalization and Nation-Building on the U.S. Mexico Border, 1910-1930 The Hispanic American Historical Review Vo. 79 No. 1 (Feb 1999): 41-81. Week 8 (March 8) The Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920s Taking notes and staying organized Flores de Andrade Recalls Revolutionary Activity as an Immigrant in El Paso, 1911 South Texas Rebels "The Plan of San Diego," 1915 JT Canales Blasts the Rangers Linda B. Hall and Don M. Coerver, The Arizona-Sonora Border and the Mexican Revolution in Oscar Martinez, Ed. U.S. Mexico Borderlands: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (Jaguar Books, Scholarly Resources, 1997), 116-133. Miguel Levario, The El Paso Race Riot of 1916 in Arnoldo De Leon, Ed. War Along the Border: The Mexican Revolution and Tejano Communities (Texas A&M Press, 2012), 134-156.
5 MARCH 13-17 SPRING BREAK Week 9 (March 22) Congress Imposes Restriction on Migration, 1917 Clifford Perkins Describes Work as a Chinese Inspector Sheriff Justifies Deporting Striking Miners from AZ town World War I, Xenophobia, and Border Surveillance, 1900s-1920s War, Red Scare, Immigration, Border Patrol Writing an outline, crafting an argument, thinking about your introduction Natalia Molina, In a Race All Their Own: The Quest to Make Mexicans Ineligible for U.S. Citizenship Pacific Historical Review Vol. 79 No. 2 (May 2010): 167-201 Patrick Ettinger, We Sometimes Wonder What They Will Spring on Us Next : Immigrants and Border Enforcement in the American West, 1882-1930 Western Historical Quarterly Vol. 37 No 2 (Summer 2006): 159-181 Week 10 (Mar 29) The Great Depression, Repatriation and World War II, 1930-1945 Great Depression & World War II, Deportation/Repatriation Outline of Paper (25 points) Send via email as MSWORD document Celdon C. Menefee, Mexican Migratory Workers in South Texas: Chrystal City, 1938 Oscar Martinez, Prohibition and Depression in Ciudad Juarez-El Paso in Oscar Martinez, Ed. U.S. Mexico Borderlands: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (Jaguar Books, Scholarly Resources, 1997): 151-161 Philip Stevenson Describes the Deportation of Jesus Pallares, 1936 R. Reynolds McKay, The Impact of the Great Depression on Immigrant Mexican Labor: Repatriation of the Bridgeport, TX, Coal Miners. Social Science Quarterly V. 65 N. 2 (June 1984): 354-363 Week 11 (April 5) Labor, Movement and The Bracero Program 1940-1964 Transnational Green Revolution, Bracero Program, Operation Wetback Return outline, Peer Review of outline Discuss Rough Draft (argument, historiography, organization, citations) Bracero and Migrant Manuel Padilla Remembers Working Life in Borderlands, 1974 Interview with Bracero Kelly L. Hernandez, The Crimes and Consequences of Illegal Immigration: A Cross-Border Examination of Operation Wetback, 1943 to 1954 The Western Historical Quarterly Vol. 37 No. 4 (2006): 421-444 Gerald Cadava, On the Borderlands of Modernity and Abandonment: The Lines Within Ambos Nogales and the Tohono O Odham Nation, The Journal of American History (September 2011): 362-383. Week 12 (April 12) Land, Water, and Resources, 1920s-1960s U.S. Mexico Water Treaty, Colorado River, Chamizal
6 Utilization of Waters of the Colorado and Tijuana Rivers and of the Rio Grande: Treaty Between the USA and Mexico, 1944 Boundary Solution of the Problem of the Chamizal, Convention between the USA and Mexico, 1963 Evan Ward, The 20 th Century Ghosts of William Walker: Conquest of Land and Water as Central Themes in the History of the Colorado River Delta The Pacific Historical Review Vol. 70 No. 3 (Aug 2001): 359-385 Jeffrey Schulze, The Chamizal Blues: El Paso, the Wayward River, and the Peoples in Between Western Historical Quarterly Vol. 43 No. 3 (Autumn 2012): 301-322. Week 13 (April 19) Cesar Chavez Boycotts Border Communities in Transition, 1960s-1970s Border Industrialization Program, Immigration Reform, Activism Due: Rough draft (50 points) Frieda Molina, The Social Impacts of the Maquiladora Industry on Mexican Border Towns Berkeley Planning Journal V. 2 N. 1 (1985): 30-39. 1965 Immigration Law Oscar J. Martinez Migration and the Border, 1865 1985, in Mark Overmeyer-Velazquez (Ed) Beyond La Frontera: The History of Mexican U.S. Migration (Oxford Press, 2011): 103-124 Week 14 (April 26) Immigration, Exclusion, and Globalization, 1980s-2001 NAFTA, GATT, Immigration, Border Enforcement Return Drafts, Peer Review President Bill Clinton Praises Free Trade Agreement, 1993 Mexican Maids: El Paso s Worst Kept Secret Tom Miller Describes Smuggling Electronics into Mexico Patricia Fernandez-Kelley and Douglas S. Massey, Borders for Whom? The Role of NAFTA in Mexico U.S. Migration, ANNALS, AAPSS 610 (March 2007): 98 118. Megan Austin, A Culture Divided by the U.S. Mexico Border: The Tohono O odham Claim for Border Crossing Rights Arizona Journal of Comparative and International Law V. 8 N. 2 (1997): 97-116. Timothy Dunn, Border Militarization Via Drug and Immigration Enforcement: Human Rights Implications Social Justice Vol 28 No 2 (Summer 2001): 7-30 Week 15 (May 3) A Post-9/11 Borderlands Impact of 9/11 on Borderland Communities
7 Minuteman Defense Corps Calls for Volunteer Border Enforcement, 2005 Testimonio, Eva Arce, Mother of Silvia Arce, Disappeared March 11, 1998 Contemporary Border Issues Denise Gilman, Seeking Breaches in the Wall: An International Human Rights Law Challenge to the Texas-Mexico Border Wall Texas International Law Journal V. 257 (Spring 2011) FINAL PAPER DUE: Final Exam Day Wednesday May 10, 7:00 9:45